Equinties - foaling season is here

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Bar the brief glimpse of the pre's that the fat white barrier circling the parade ring allows, most of you reading this will have quite limited real word contact with the massive fluffy animals we love to watch and bet on and as such won't be aware of the importance the next few months are for the racing industry.

Nope, despite what the dross product of Racing Twitter will have you believe, it isn't the fact we're another day closer to Cheltenham...yawn. It's more important than that. It's predominantly the reason we're all here. It's foaling season.

A consequence of industry brain's influence over favourable gene variants, all combined together by the hand of mother nature, the foaling season is a time where dreams of success begin and something tells me the big dreams have started at Bearstone Stud.

She was legendary on the track for Kevin Ryan and now a dam to a DUBAWI colt, the three-time Gr1-winning GLASS SLIPPERS gave birth to her first foal earlier this week, as announced by Bearstone Stud on Twitter.

The Breeders Cup, Prix de l’Abbaye, and Flying Five heroine was last seen on the track in November 2021 in the US but she has a new job now...'Mum'.

We too at BGP Capital are awaiting our first foal due in March, our first home bred. It's an exciting part of the racing process knowing we're responsible for a small influence of future generations and I'm sure there will be some long conversations over numerous beers as to whether we send the foal to the sales or indeed keep to race under our brand, but we'll worry about that at the time and for now just keep our fingers crossed for a safe delivery.

Now, let's dive in.

Headline Roundup

Chappers vs BHA

We start today’s newsletter with some Twitter beef between Matt Chapman and the BHA in what caused a lengthy argument on Twitter.

It all started with Matt’s recent column in The Sun…

Which promoted this response from the BHA Twitter account…

Causing Chappers to respond with this…

This spouted into a very long thread of ping-pong tweet, but the general basis was this:

-Chappers is claiming some riders would have picked up extremely lengthy band if the news rules were in place now.

-BHA say this is wrong

-Chappers continues down the same avenue

-BHA say he is inaccurate, and ended with this…

To be honest, this was all very confusing to look in on from an outside perspective, but at least we know the BHA media man has a set of balls on him.

The one thing that is for certain is that in the first week of this ‘bedding-in period’ for the new rules, there would have been 43 potential individual offences if the restrictions had been in place from just 84 races. Blimey.

Novice Hurdle Entries

The early closing entries for this year’s novice hurdles at the Cheltenham Festival shut yesterday and there were certainly a few ante-post degens crying tears into their cornflakes this morning.

GOOD LAND and CHAMP KIELY's omissions from the Bartlett were perhaps surprising (they head to the Ballymore), but apart from that, it was all fairly normal - Irish dominance.

Facile Vega still has the option of the Supreme or Ballymore:

And Three Card Brag remains in the Bartlett:

Interestingly, JP McManus’ INDIANA DREAM, a 16/1 shot for the Albert Bartlett, was not entered for any of the three races - has there been an issue with him?

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Today's best stats

ANOTHER bullish day for the stats yesterday. May the bull run continue.

Sheehan and Snowden have a bullish 70% sr at Catterick and go to war with two today in STAREVITCH and GIT MAKER. The former is a very expensive winner of a terrible Point and looks (atm) a waste of money so I'd be siding with the big GIT MAKER to maintain their sr today.

RELKADAM won the 14.45 last year and looks to retain his title again. He particularly enjoys Catterick having raced there 9 times, winning twice and placing three times. The early winter months seem to be when to catch this lad.

Risk on

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